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Information Quotes


"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."


"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."


"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."


"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."


"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."


"I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends."


"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."


"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."


"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."


"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."


"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."


"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."


"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."


"You don't teach information in a writing workshop."


"This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information."


"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."


"Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel."


"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."


"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."


"Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount."


"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."


"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."


"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."


"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."


"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."


"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."


"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."


"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."


"Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself."


"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."


"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."


"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy."


"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."


"As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years."


"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."


"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."


"You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information."


"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."


"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."


"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."


"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."


"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."


"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."


"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."


"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them."


"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."


"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."


"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."


"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."


"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."
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